Cynthia:Perhaps this comic strip is still floating about in bulk space, unable to become sequestered within a brane.;)

The "child in us" is free to explore the limits that we may apply to certain areas of inspection(our universe)? It is only after we understand "the physics" that the "parent in us" asks that we move ahead slowly and try and keep in touch with the physics.

Some well grounded parents with their children saw that to speak about cosmology, it was was "okay" to move beyond "that subject."

So it took a brave soul as a adult like Gabriele Veneziano to "think like the child," "act as the parent" and remain open as the adult?

While one should not think the parent to be the "death of anything" it is no doubt the conclusion to which we have applied our constraints.

While using a "psychological model" here in comparison, if you sawthe "subject of Veneziano's use of the painting by the 1897 painting by Paul Gauguin: D'ou venons? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous, then looking at "model apprehension" would seem to take a brave soul(adult) even amidst their peers?